Just as an aside for all you car drivers. Much of the Tyre Cord and Bead steel for Bridgestone, Michelin, Pirelli and Bekaert Group tyres are all supplied by British Steel Scunthorpe via their Rod Mill.

Ditto, my left pannier is difficult. On and off several times just at point of giving up and it locates-damn thing is infuriating.

I have no idea, there is my input for you.

That factory would have been shut down in a heart beat by UK Factory Inspectors. So many dodgy issues to list, no wonder we can't compete with companies abroad!

.Yeah I had a few Bultaco's in the 70's, a few years ago I restored a '76 360 Frontera. Would love to get a Metralla, I hear they handle very well.

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That Yamaha is the same colour as my first bike - 1975 RS 125 Torque Induction. Plug got wet at the slightest hint of rain, brakes were a ...

Doctor T wrote: Sun Jul 06, 2025 3:52 pm I just debudded the flower heads and watered the plants. Sods law its now chucking it down

I presume you mean dead heading? If you" debudded" then presumably you will have no future flowers.

Wish my garage was so neat and tidy.

BoB21 wrote: Fri May 30, 2025 1:37 pm Boys on their way to thirsk

Damn, saw a group of BMWs early afternoon going up South Ferriby hill and wondered if it was you lot. In hindsight I should have turned around and gone back to Barton and said hello. Hope you had a good ride out and avoided the showers.

Yesterday, we had another test drive of the Kia Niro EV. Before you say, I know they are not as green as people say. Building an EV uses more carbon than a basic petrol engined car. To put it in context, we use our car very little, only covering 7040 miles in nearly 3 years, and the car before we ...

Its on my 2015 LE too.

Doctor T wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 12:49 pm I haven't heard the news. Did they step in to help?. We need BSC in the country. RIP, Port Talbot.

Yes Gov took control to stop Chinese from sabotaging the furnaces, actually stopping them from entering the plant.

Yes but its sunny in Scunny today, the Gov did something right at last. Blast Furnaces are very dangerous places having spent a year working on the cast house floor a few decades ago.

We speak the same language, but I need a translation.

1gewehr wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 11:11 pm Nope, it's "Vise Grips". You clamp things in a vise. Some folks belong in a cell due their "vice".

Not according to the Oxford English Dictionary!

Can you change the Wrench titles to English Spanner as well please.(unless its a torque wrench ,or monkey wrench. Its Vice grips too)